Falmouth selectmen were given only two options: tear down the town's two turbines or buy out the aggrieved neighbors. I advocated a buyout as the more sensible choice, spending taxpayer money to get value back as opposed to spending money just to lose money. How callous of me!

But there's a grandfathered, privately owned "industrial scale" turbine in the area, so "wind turbine syndrome" would still exist there even after a teardown.

As an elected official, my first responsibility is to the 32,000 residents of Falmouth. I must consider the town's interest as a whole, so I asked selectmen why a compromise was not on the table, replacing the town's oversized turbines with smaller, less intrusive ones. The answer, clearly, is the extremist anti-wind hysteria being spread by agitators like Bibler.